But shallow waters were less appealing to humans who wanted to dredge the waterways for shipping channels.
Rather these prospects are in the shallow waters, just offshore in waters less than 50 feet deep.
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They are colonies of tiny living organisms, most commonly found in warm shallow waters in the tropics.
Oyster reefs thrived in shallow waters where they basked under much needed sunlight.
The northern Caspian is even worse case because there, you have shallow waters.
Back then the conventional wisdom was that the shallow waters were played out.
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In summer, it is dotted with families enjoying its shallow waters, but given its size, there is always more than enough space.
McMoran has been developing expertise in drilling at extreme depths below sea level in the shallow waters of the gulf.
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In the wild, they feast gregariously in shallow waters, encircling shoals of small fish, scooping them up in their pouches.
It also comes fully equipped with the latest in diving gear to make the most of the boat's shallow waters capabilities.
Among the supermajors Chevron likely has the most acreage in the shallow waters of the Gulf where these ultra-deep prospects lay.
Unlike the Deepwater Horizon rig, this platform is located in shallow waters.
The region is criss-crossed by pipelines and wellheads are a common sight in the shallow waters of the bayou and bay shoreline.
Along Boulevard Road, scores of houseboats rest gently in the shallow waters of Dal Lake, ready for the tourists who don't come.
An offshore wind park with a capacity of 120 MW is planned for shallow waters 6 to 10 kilometers from the coast.
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Because the majority of fish live in the shallow waters near islands, rangers have implemented a fishing ban within 100 meters of islands.
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Basically, it's an inventive method of wetland farming conducive to the area, whose freshwater springs and shallow waters made it an ideal place for chinampa agriculture.
Local environmentalists blame an international oil consortium now drilling its first well in the shallow waters of Kazakhstan's sector of the Caspian Sea.
The sperm whale, a deep diving species, spent almost nine days in the shallow waters of Oban bay before swimming back out to sea.
Located in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, these wells like Davy Jones and Blackbeard have found massive amounts of natural gas.
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Each chinampa is a rectangular platform typically about 6m wide by 91m long, covered in mud obtained from the surrounding shallow waters and fertilised by their nutrients.
The fishermen's ploy is to put a net in those shallow waters, slanting it to the left or right according to the direction of the migration.
The University of Texas scientists pointed out that normally, icebergs move south from Greenland in fits and starts, frequently grounding in the shallow waters off Labrador and Newfoundland.
It has even flown a group of Kazakh journalists to Louisiana to show them how oil is safely produced in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
The federal government required her at one point to do sonar testing in shallow waters to make sure a 17th-century French ship wasn't buried below the sand, she said.
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Europe has had offshore wind farms since the early 90s, but all of the development has been in shallow waters, unlike the deep waters of the Gulf of Maine.
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Even before the causeway was built around 70 years ago, children were able to wade through the shallow waters of Mulroy Bay on stilts to get to school on the mainland.
Mr. Moffett has long believed that the shallow waters of the Gulf, though widely considered a spent energy source, have phenomenal deposits of natural gas far beneath the pincushion of drilling sites from earlier decades.
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Houston contractor Parker Drilling (nyse: PKD - news - people ) has had its share of woes since building Sunkar, a barge designed to drill in the icy, shallow waters of the Caspian.
And the New York Yacht Club was accused in its early days of deliberately holding the race in the shallow waters off Manhattan so that British challengers, which had to be seaworthy enough to sail across the Atlantic, were at a disadvantage.
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